Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lecks, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lecks
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killastueran Fort & Graveyard
- Coordinates
- 53.98611, -6.89084
- SMR number
- CV023-030001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Raised oval area (int. dims. c. 32m NNW-SSE; 30m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone. Original entrance not recognisable. Davies (1948, 116) recorded that the rath is 'believed to be a church site' (CV023-030002-) while there is a local tradition that it marks the site of a children's burial ground (1740).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.